Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Nemuro in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006e3k. Id of event: us70006e3k. Exact location of earthquake, 145.2268° East, 42.8419° North, depth 44.32 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 07:41:16 / November 28, 2019 @ 7:41 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.32 km (28 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:41:16 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Kushiro, Nemuro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 60 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.2268° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.8419° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km SSW of Nemuro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-28 07:41:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-28 07:58:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	369	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.74	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70006e3k	Id of event.
Event Code	70006e3k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006e3k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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